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Free Download German Motorcycles at War, 1939-1945: The Kradschützen Truppen by Ian Baxter
English | December 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 1036100561 | 128 pages | True EPUB | 31.44 MB
Explores the crucial role of motorcycles in the Nazi war machine, enhancing mobility and tactical effectiveness during WWII.

Free Download David Brown – Carrier Fighters: 1939-1945
Macdonald and Jane’s | 1975 | ISBN: 0356080951 | English | 168 pages | PDF | 122.32 MB
Development of Naval fighter aircraft to WW2. Tactics, Pilot training. Notable battles described in detail. Malta Convoys, Coral Sea, Midway & Philippine Sea. Techincal details.

Free Download Harry Plevy – Destroyer Actions: September 1939 – June 1940
The History Press | 2008 | ISBN: 1862274835 | English | 304 pages | PDF | 71.48 MB
Utilising eye-witness accounts of those who participated in them, Destroyer Actions focuses on the human side of naval operations during the first eight months of the Second World War. Harry Plevy draws upon primary sources of both naval and civilian provenance, many of which are previously unpublished and therefore have never been available to the general reader. Extensively researched through comparison of British and German operational logs, and including first-hand evidence from Polish, French and Norwegian sources which reveal the true impact of the conflict at sea upon the lives of the people of all nations caught up in it, this book gives a comprehensive picture of destroyer actions at the beginning of the Second World War.

Free Download Voices from the Luftwaffe (Luftwaffe In Combat 1939-45) by Bob Carruthers
English | January 19th, 2013 | ISBN: 1781591113 | 128 pages | True EPUB | 22.31 MB
This WWII oral history tells the story of the Luftwaffe through the eyes of those who served in combat-illustrated with wartime propaganda.

Free Download U.S. Battleships 1939-45
by Ingo Bauernfeind
English | August 31, 2024 | ISBN: 163624257X | 222 Pages | epub | 62 MB

Free Download Footsloggers: An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45 (Audiobook)
English | October 31, 2023 | ASIN: B0CL7RDRMF | M4B@128 kbps | 14h 21m | 782 MB
Author: Peter Hart | Narrator: Nigel Patterson
The only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to the experiences of those men who were there. And often, there was nowhere more dangerous than on the ground.
In Footsloggers, Peter Hart reconstructs one infantry battalion’s war in staggering detail. Based on his interviews with members of the 16th Durham Light Infantry, Hart bears witness not only to their comradeship, suffering, dreadful losses, and individual tragedies, but also their courage and self-sacrifice as they fought their way across North Africa, Italy, and Greece. This is a human look at the inhuman nature of war from the author of At Close Range and Burning Steel.

Free Download Robert Jackson – Air War Over France 1939-40
Ian Allan | 1975 | ISBN: 0711005109 | English | 196 pages | PDF | 111.23 MB
Relatively few books have been written about the air war over France and the Low Countries during 1939 and 1940. Therefore, Robert Jackson’s "Air War Over France, 1939-40" deserves a close look. The book is well written, providing lots of detail on the combat operations mounted by the Allies in particular during the 1939 and 1940 period. The chapters of the book are: (1) The Road to Disaster, (2) The Phoney War, (3) The Germans Strike: Holland and Belgium, (4) The Massacre of the AASF, (5) French Day Bombing and Reconnaissance Operations, (6) Allied Fighter Operations, (7) French Naval Air Operations, (8) The Allied Night Bombing Offensive, (9) Luftwaffe Operations, May 1940: Dunkirk, and (10) Franco-Italian Air Operations. The book concludes with several useful appendices, including Armee de l’Air and Aeronavale orders of battle, a statistical summary of air operations, aircraft of the battle, and a list of French fighter aces. Sixty-plus photographs are also provided. The only major drawbacks to the book are that it does not provide much detail from the Luftwaffe’s point of view, and no sources are cited, leaving one wonder where Jackson got all his information from. Overall, however, "Air War Over France" offers a useful addition to the available literature on WW2 military aviation.

Free Download Brian Tilley, "Tynedale at War 1939-1945 (Your Towns & Cities in World War Two)"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1473863953 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 3.0 mb
Barawling Australians, Polish pilots burning to avenge themselves on Germany for the invasion of their country, the German officer who drowned while trying to escape from a South Tyne PoW camp, and the pub landlady who watered down her gin in order, she claimed, to prevent naive Land Army girls getting drunk it was all part of life in Tynedale as the district went to war for the second time in twenty-five years.

Free Download Prisoners of War: Europe: 1939-1956 by Bob Moore
English | August 5, 2022 | ISBN: 019884039X | True EPUB | 560 pages | 3.5 MB
The Second World War between the European Axis powers and the Allies saw more than twenty million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. While this total is inflated by the unconditional surrender of all German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945, it nonetheless highlights the fact that captivity was one of the most common experiences for all those in uniform – even more common than frontline service. Despite this, and the huge literature on so many aspects of the war, prisoner of war histories have remained a separate and sometimes isolated element in the wider national chronicles of the conflict constructed in the post war era. Prisoners of every nationality had their own narratives of military service and captivity.

Free Download David Sunderland, "Economic Development of Africa, 1880-1939 vol 3"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138113174 | EPUB | pages: 438 | 2.3 mb
One of the main motives for British imperialism in Africa was economic gain. This collection examines the ways in which Britain developed Africa, and, in so doing, benefited her own economy.